What does my spine have to do with my health?
Your spinal column surrounds and protects your spinal cord, a delicate system of nerves, which controls your organs, muscles, immune system and your body’s natural ability to heal itself.
It’s a BIG deal.
Your ability to prevent disease relies substantially upon the condition of your spine and nervous system. A well-aligned spine is a major factor in determining whether your body is producing health (optimum physical, mental and social well-being) or disease. Our doctor’s top priority is to correct your spine to optimize your nerve function. That way every, healthy choice you make has a lasting impact.
Why chiropractic?
Since 1895, chiropractic has conservatively helped millions of people recover from sickness, disease and disability while minimizing the use of drugs and/or surgery. The doctor of chiropractic focuses on maintaining proper spinal function and its relationship to the nervous system and good health.
What is chiropractic?
Chiropractic is a form of healthcare concentrating on locating and removing spinal misalignments, which can cause severe spine and nervous system stress. This is also known as the vertebral subluxation complex– a condition that puts pressure on nerves, unbalances your body, lowers your resistance to disease and weakens you.
What is a vertebral subluxation?
Joints can have disturbed biomechanics with or without pain or other symptoms, which can alter load distribution, increase the risk of injury, accelerate degeneration and reduce optimal performance. Chiropractors identify dysfunctional joints and utilize spinal adjustments to help restore normal biomechanics.
How do subluxations occur?
Subluxations occur from physical and/or emotional stress. Subluxations may be caused in infancy from a difficult birth or childhood falls. Later in life, subluxations may be caused by gradual deterioration of the spine from accumulated stress, tension, or more violent injuries, such as automobile accidents, falls, or sports injuries.
The “hidden epidemic.”
Nearly everyone is affected by spinal nerve stress and eventually gets spinal subluxations. For that reason, we all need to have our spines checked by a doctor of chiropractic periodically, just as we have our eyes, teeth and blood pressure checked.
What does a doctor of chiropractic do?
A doctor of chiropractic will perform a thorough examination including a complete history, postural screening, and x-ray examination, which combined will help narrow down the location and cause of potential spinal subluxation. The doctor will then perform specific spinal adjustments to correct subluxated segments and help restore the body’s ability to heal itself.
Chiropractic Paradigm
- The body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism.
- The nervous system is the master system that regulates and controls all other organs and tissues of the body and relates the individual to his/her environment.
- Spinal biomechanical dysfunction in the form of vertebral subluxation complex may affect the nerve system’s ability to regulate function.